I Opened a Restaurant on a Galactic Livestream

A gourmet, Qiao Anyi transmigrates into the heir to a restaurant in the interstellar age.

But people here are accustomed to relying on convenient, nutritious supplements as their main food source, and the little restaurant is on the verge of closing.

Famished, Qiao Anyi takes a sip of the specially formulated nutritional liquid and is thunderstruck.

People can eat this???

He can't accept it and would rather die all over again on the spot. Just then, an electronic voice rings in his ear:

Ding-dong! Your little restaurant management System is now online.

Thirty points for a vegetable gift basket, fifty points for a serving of secret-recipe beef tallow hot pot base, eighty points for a free-range hen, one hundred points for a box of premium sea urchin... Make a limited-time first purchase of 188 star coins and get one extra abalone for free.

The dream is wonderful.

Qiao Anyi has something to look forward to, but when he checks his data card, he finds that even the vegetable gift basket would leave him two coins short.

Qiao Anyi: Help me up. I'm going to make money!

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Before long, a little livestream room appears.

In the center of the shot are two eggs and a bowl of cold rice.

A passerby in the audience casually types a string of comments.

"Eggs? This foul-smelling, low-grade food still hasn't disappeared from the market? And those ingredients look so unappetizing. How can the streamer possibly make good food without spending a cent?"

Nobody responds to the comment. The camera turns toward an iron wok.

A burst of flame leaps up. The eggs are cracked into a bowl and beaten. A second later, oil goes into the wok, and the golden egg mixture sizzles as the overnight rice is added. With the streamer's practiced toss of the wok, the rice breaks apart, every grain evenly coated in gold.

An unfamiliar yet overpowering aroma of hot oil passes through the screen and reaches the nose of the mocking viewer.

He swallows furiously, ignoring his aching face, and immediately sends a luxury airship gift.

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Under a barrage of gifts from the top donor, Anyi's livestream catches everyone's interest.

Only a pair of elegant hands ever appears on camera, yet they deftly debone and carve the meat. At first, viewers are unsettled by the brutal-looking process, and the comments fill with disapproval.

But then the streamer works culinary magic, preparing all kinds of delicacies that viewers can't even name.

Netizens who have activated the shared-sense-of-smell System all say the same thing:

"That smells incredible! There's no way I'm losing weight now!"

"Mom asked why I was watching the livestream with drool running down my face, QAQ."

"Where's the streamer's restaurant? We have to go check it out!!!!"

The little restaurant, once on the brink of closing, suddenly becomes famous.

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As a gourmet, Qiao Anyi loves livestreaming and sharing delicious food. One time, viewers see him grinding meat.

"What are you making today, streamer? Are you developing a new dish?"

Only once the ingredients are in the pan does Qiao Anyi have time to glance at the comments.

"No, no. This is for my kitten."

"I just found it."

"It's shy, so I can't show it to everyone yet."

Smelling the aroma transmitted through the shared-senses System, everyone wishes they could turn into the stray cat Qiao Anyi mentioned.

At last, after countless viewers beg, Qiao Anyi agrees to show them his kitten.

He lifts the kitten, and a handsome, refined face appears on camera with it. He looks at the audience and says, "Meow~"

"Huh???"

"He could make a living off his looks, but he chose to rely on his talent..."

Comments with the same message flood by in a stream of thousands.

At the same time, several star systems away, a certain Federation colonel bolts upright.

Hey, hey, hey? Did I just see the spirit beast of our long-comatose commander in some livestream room???

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Later, the little restaurant grows bigger and stronger, breaks out of the M-665+ star system, and reaches the entire universe.

Qiao Anyi is very modest in an interview: To be honest, at first I was only trying to satisfy my own appetite.

Theme: Hard work brings prosperity.